The artifact, estimated to be over 3,000 years old, is unlike anything ever recorded in Egyptian history, raising more questions than answers about the true nature of ancient civilizations.

Look at a list of ingredients, work backward, and you can see what a civilization farmed, traded for, and treasured. Recreate that dish, and you get a sense of how other people lived.

In his 2014 book, 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric Cline described this so-called “Late Bronze Age Collapse,” which led to a “Dark Age” that lasted for decades in some places, and ...

Ancient China: Facts about one of the most powerful ancient civilizations in the world; ... The Book of the Dead was an ancient Egyptian manual for how to travel through the afterlife.

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the largest and most populous ancient civilizations, ... and societal decline, as Jared Diamond detailed in his 2011 book "Collapse." ...

Two recent books shed light on evolving interpretations of pre-Columbian civilizations. Zelia Nuttall, who died in 1933 at the age of 75, was a pioneering anthropologist whose many contributions ...

Ancient civilizations countered extreme heat. ... Civilizations have recognized the power of cities to heat themselves up and cool themselves for centuries. ... As I explore in my recent book, ...